<p style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:0cm; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:107%">According to the public relations office of the IRIPP, Shahram Naimi, the director of the institute, while participating in the program of “from farm to the table” of Radio Salamat, explained the activities of the institute in line with the national food security strategic plan.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:0cm; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:107%">The director of the institute mentioned the topics of this program, including improving the safety of horticultural, agricultural and greenhouse crops, optimizing the use of pesticides, integrated pests, diseases and weeds management, developing biological control methods, investigating the effects of climate changes and biodiversity in the field of plant protection.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:0cm; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:107%">He mentioned that: "The Institute, following the slogan of “more food, better food”, is trying to reduce the use of chemical pesticides and introducing low-risk pesticides to produce safe agricultural and horticultural products and to make the agriculture and plant protection sector knowledge-based and to promote productivity.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:0cm; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:107%">He continued: The institute seeks to use new technologies to identify and manage harmful pests. To achieve this he proposed to make diagnosis and control methods smart and to use the smart plant protection methods such as Internet of things (iot), artificial intelligence (AI) and remote intelligence.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:0cm; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:107%">Program link: <a href="http://radio.iranseda.ir/epgarchivePart/?VALID=TRUE&ch=17&e=152245518" target="_blank">http://radio.iranseda.ir/epgarchivePart/?VALID=TRUE&ch=17&e=152245518</a></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:0cm; text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:107%"><a href="/_ppdri/images/english/1403/na2.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="na2.jpg" src="/_ppdri/images/english/1403/na2.jpg" style="height:620px; width:700px" /></a></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:8pt; margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:0cm; text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:107%"><img alt="na1.jpg" src="/_ppdri/images/english/1403/na1.jpg" style="height:176px; width:286px" /></span></span></span></p>